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...begun. The trouble from the French standpoint was that they were advancing squarely towards the mountain ridge that forms the backbone of the Riff sausage and had to fight separately for every little foothill. Nonetheless, the losses apparently were not heavy, and an advance was made several miles deep on a 40-mile front. Thirteen of the blockhouses (the French advance posts before the campaign began and the Riffs took them) were recaptured. For three days the French advanced, and then they rested and consolidated their positions. The French are not "out of the woods" yet-they are just getting...
...when they had removed the two victims and others, battered and bruised by many a thump, they could not find the soul-sick hacker. The deep night and still night had swallowed...
...Hugo Stinnes, crafty, potent, indurate,-a short while "All-Highest" of Germany-was planned a mausoleum to rival Les Invalides. Like the upstart Napoleon, he should lie in a marble crypt deep under a marble dome. In place of WAGRAM, JENA, AUSTERLITZ, PYRENEES, etc., there should be carved COAL, IRON, RAILROADS, NEWSPAPERS, etc. And all should be suffused by pale blue, pale yellow lights...
...Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred...
...Haldane, popular Cambridge biological litterateur, expressed (in picturesque terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal...